Thought I would share this link for anyone who fishes the U.P. or has an interest in preserving brook trout populations in the midwest. Deadline would be tomorrow night or early Wednesday for sending emails and comments to the NRC. Proposal seems to be bad news.

I honestly wouldn’t worry that much, there’s plenty of fish and most people up there don’t exactly follow limits to begin with. I went to Lake State for a year, I saw some shit.

I believe it and I know there are a lot of folks who don't respect the resource and have an outright contempt for the DNR, both in the U.P. and Wisconsin. I just think it sets a dangerous precedent going forward. It's kind of like the wolf situation. We think that because they've recovered nicely that we can go back to the good old days. But the problem is that's what got us into the situation we are now finally out of.

It is a dangerous precedent, I'll absolutely agree. I find it interesting that fishing pressure didn't increase. The MN DNR are dealing with the same situation on the N Shore. The fishing has been quite good for the past several years, but no one is going, they can't quite figure it out. Hopefully, people will continue to find these Brookie streams to be too much work, and that is just fine with me. As for the Yoopers, there has always been that attitude. I think they'd have completely ridded themselves of fish and game within 10 years had they seceded from Michigan like they tried to 40 years or so back. The one thing I've thought about with this is that, if you're talking all the Reg 1 water (more than 10 men could fish in 5 lifetimes), won't the impact be fairly spread out? I obviously hope so

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It is a dangerous precedent, I'll absolutely agree. I find it interesting that fishing pressure didn't increase. The MN DNR are dealing with the same situation on the N Shore. The fishing has been quite good for the past several years, but no one is going, they can't quite figure it out. Hopefully, people will continue to find these Brookie streams to be too much work, and that is just fine with me. As for the Yoopers, there has always been that attitude. I think they'd have completely ridded themselves of fish and game within 10 years had they seceded from Michigan like they tried to 40 years or so back. The one thing I've thought about with this is that, if you're talking all the Reg 1 water (more than 10 men could fish in 5 lifetimes), won't the impact be fairly spread out? I obviously hope so

Yeah I'm sure the impact will be more spread out up there than it would be in the northern WI counties which are not as remote. Thankfully this hasn't come up here yet. I do not think the waters could support it. To highlight some people's contempt for the Dept. around here, a few of them have illegally introduced bass into wild trout waters just to get under the Dept's skin and make their job impossible. On one wild brookie lake it resulted in needing to be poisoned out and restocked to get rid of the largemouth. The last trout survey before the poisoning turned up only 5 brookies in a 25 acre lake. Then it happened not 5 years later on a smaller lake. We're still working on that one now. Good thing fried bass taste good.

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